Edgar Dearing
Born: 1893-05-03 in Ceres, California, USA
Died: 1974-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.
Filmography
2024
- Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- Thriller as The Police Sergeant
- The Tall Man
- Pollyanna as Mr. Gorman
1959
- The Twilight Zone as First Resurrected Man
- No Name on the Bullet as Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
1958
1957
- Trackdown as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1956
- State Trooper
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie
1954
- Public Defender
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Gorman
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
1953
- I'm the Law
- It Came from Outer Space as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- Vice Squad as Fitz (uncredited)
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Fitz
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Police Lt. Ryan
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Carson City as Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
- Ruby Gentry
- Glory Alley as Man at Gym (uncredited)
1951
- Boston Blackie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Silver Canyon as Colonel Middler
- As You Were as Sgt. Monahan
- Pecos River as Henry Mahoney
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop Willard
1950
- The Iroquois Trail
- Union Station as Detective (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Hunt the Man Down as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Randolph Dike
- Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones
1949
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Reiber
- Sorrowful Jones as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
- The Threat as Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1948
- My Girl Tisa as Jailer (uncredited)
- Out of the Storm as Ed Purcell
- Man or Mouse as Hercules Jones
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Policeman
- Magic Town as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
- Christmas Eve as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Where There's Life as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
- The Virginian
- Road to Utopia as Official Policeman (uncredited)
- Nocturne as Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as Policeman (uncredited)
- Johnny Angel as Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Al - First Studio Cop
- Don't Fence Me In as Chief of Police
- Midnight Manhunt as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
- Her Lucky Night as Casey
- Swing Out, Sister as Motorcycle Cop
1944
- In Society as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Man (uncredited)
- Strange Affair as Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- Seven Doors to Death as Claude Burns
- Make Your Own Bed as Sergeant
1943
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
- Fired Wife as Sullivan
- Princess O'Rourke as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
1942
- Miss Annie Rooney as Policeman
- My Favorite Spy as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
- The Affairs of Martha as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- My Favorite Blonde as Joe - Policeman
- Apache Trail as Marshal (uncredited)
- A Gentleman After Dark as Joe
- Between Us Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Irondome (uncredited)
- Pot o' Gold as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
- Niagara Falls as State Trooper
- Remember the Day as Detective
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Policeman (uncredited)
- Maisie Was a Lady as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
- Louisiana Purchase as House Detective (uncredited)
- Caught in the Draft as Recruiting Sergeant
1940
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Policeman (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Policeman
- Go West as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
- When the Daltons Rode as Sheriff
- Knute Rockne All American as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
- Primrose Path as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- No Time for Comedy as Sweeny (uncredited)
- Wildcat Bus as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Florian as Cop
- Wyoming as Capt. Evans
- We Who Are Young as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Lucky Partners as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Cross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney
- And One Was Beautiful as Higgins
- Sailor's Lady as Chief Master-of-Arms
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Policeman
- Little Orvie as Policeman
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Police Officer
- American Spoken Here as Mike Fink (uncredited)
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld as Police Detective (uncredited)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
- Made for Each Other as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
- Full Confession as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
- Honolulu as Jailer
- Blondie Meets the Boss as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- A Child is Born as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Second Bartender (uncredited)
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
- Thunder Afloat as Petty Officer (uncredited)
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jim Simmons
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
1938
- You Can't Take It with You as Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
- Listen, Darling as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Blondie as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
- Maid's Night Out as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Spring Madness as Policeman
- Hard to Get as Eddie (uncredited)
- Love Is a Headache as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
- Border G-Man as Smoky Joslin
- The Chaser as Policeman at End
- Hold That Kiss as Policeman
1937
- The Awful Truth as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- You Only Live Once as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Midnight Taxi as Officer Murray
- Big City as Tom Reilley
- Dangerous Number as Policeman
- Love Is News as Motorcycle Officer
- They Gave Him a Gun as Sgt. Meadowlark
- It Happened in Hollywood as Joe Stevens
- Married Before Breakfast as Police Sergeant
1936
- After the Thin Man as Bill (uncredited)
- Swing Time as (uncredited)
- Back to Nature as Motorcycle Officer
- Hollywood Boulevard as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- That Girl from Paris as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
- Bunker Bean as Policeman (uncredited)
- Border Flight as Smugglers' Pilot
- All Business as House Detective
- Down the Ribber
1935
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Railroad Man
- She Couldn't Take It as Precint 5 Policeman
- The Rainmakers as Kelly
- Rendezvous as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
- If You Could Only Cook as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Helldorado as Motorcycle Cop
- The Nitwits as Police Officer Barney Riley
- Stolen Harmony as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- A Quiet Fourth
1934
- Cleopatra as Convict
- Kentucky Kernels as Policeman (uncredited)
- Thirty Day Princess as Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
- Ocean Swells as Captain
1933
- Eskimo as Constable Balk (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
- The Midnight Patrol as Policeman (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Train Official (uncredited)
- The Lost Squadron as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
1931
- The Star Witness as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
- The Painted Desert as Buck's Partner
- Consolation Marriage as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
- Next Door Neighbors as Cop
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Armstrong
- Free and Easy as Officer
- Estrellados as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- A Man from Wyoming as Sergeant
- Two Plus Fours as Rent Collector
- Rich Uncles
- Live and Learn as Mr. Smith
- Traffic Tangle as Motor Cop
1929
- The Locked Door as Cop
- Flight as Football Coach
- The Mighty as Doughboy
- The Jazz Age as Motor Cop
- A Pair of Tights as Policeman (uncredited)
- Clunked on the Corner as Cop
1928
- Lonesome as Cop (uncredited)
- Came the Dawn as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
- Fair and Muddy as Motorcycle Cop
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Henchman
- Limousine Love as Motorcycle cop
1927
- Call of the Cuckoo as Guest
- Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor
- Should Men Walk Home?
1926
- On the Front Page as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)